
The chaotic race of the Hungarian Grand Prix, during which the rain prevented the riders several times from showing the maximum speed of Formula-1 machines, ended with Jenson Batton’s victory on McLaren. Together with the British, Sebastian Vettel and Fernando Alonso climbed the podium. Russian Vitaly Petrov finished the 12th.
On the eve of the race, the Hungaroring highway poured rain. Therefore, the pilots had to start on intermediate tires for wet asphalt. The holder of Powe Sebastian Vettel on Red Bull confidently held the lead, but after a few circles he was caught up by Lewis Hamilton on McLaren, and went out in the first place.
The dark-skinned Briton confidently controlled the course of the race, giving leadership only at the pit stops, but when the rain Hamilton did not control the car in the fight against his partner Jenson Button again on the highway. Turning McLaren in the desired direction of the London almost crashed into circular, for which at the end of the race he was punished by traveling on the pit lane. And, although Hamilton managed to overtake Batton again by this time, the fine dropped the 2008 champion in 4th place.
Button once again demonstrated that he knows how to perfectly pilot on a wet and drying highway. In 2006 in Hungary, he won his first race, and now he won the 200th Grand Prix.
Vettel finished the second, and the leader of the championship overtook Alonso, who was walking ahead on the highway. Functioning Hamilton, Webber, Mass, Di Rest, Buemi, Rosberg and Algersari, who closed the glass zone.
The Russian pilot Vitaly Petrov on Renault finished the 12th, in the same position as he received in qualifications. During the race, he entered the prize ten, but a couple of risky tactical decisions left a racer from Vyborg without glasses.
Russian partner Nick Hidfeld became a participant in the literal sense of an explosive incident. After one of the pi-stops, smoke fell from the German car, and when he parked her on the side of the road, Renault flashed. The pilot managed to leave the cockpit, but for a long time they could not put out the car.